I am really looking forward to this - for brainstorming and outlining this would be priceless! Seamless coversion from mindmap to project/whatever hierchy level and vice versa would for me be the final push.

Filled out the survey. Really looking forward to this. Might I suggest implementing hotkeys. When I first started using mindmaps it was like a digital whiteboard but over time I learned shortcuts and started using it to quickly structure projects, ideas, taxonomies. It's a small thing that gives folks the path to become power users and in turn get so much more out the core feature.

Filled in the survey. Curious what you are cooking up! I use mindmaps typically to sketch on paper and it is very unstructured (at least in layers), so no clear idea yet how it best translates. I only have brief experience with meistertask/meistermind, so maybe that helps a bit.

@Jason Hull: task management and bpm are approximately 5 light years apart :) ... there is BPML and all that sh**, capable process servers, etc. (think camunda, bonita, etc.) But some simple process ability like you described (casual.pm) would be HUGE win for clickup.

@zeb-1 : www.processmaker.com is an example of what can happen when Automation and Mindmapping (two planned features for Clickup 2.0) are working together in Clickup. Keep the visualisation of Automation in mind and combine its development with the mindmap feature. or better...make it one solution.

@Yuri : If this is what Clickup 2.0 is about, I'm totally in. Project/List/Task templates and (pbm) process instances are just one step away. There are many tools which simplified bpm on consumer level (like process.st - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzn9_IkPhmU). Again, I'm looking forward to see how amazing team on clickup will approach this problem.

@Milan Košir: I agree. It would be a smart move of the Clickup development team if they first focus on making tasks 'entities' which are independent of any container, and allow custom relationships (and relationship types). If that foundation is accomplished, and the feature Automation is introduced as expected, the display of mindmaps or any visual representation of these relationships, is an easy and logical result of that.

@Yuri : I don't think that process management and mind mapping are necessary related. Visualization of business processes is actually a completely different thing (branching, conditional logic, etc) from Buzan mind mapping concept. And I also totally overlooked goals feature, so ... my bad. I think that with goals and/or task dependencies you can make a simple BPM...

Would be great to have the possibility to create, oversee and work with a WBS (Chart view) directly in Click Up. This would be similar to a mind map, but the difference is that this is a view. WBS view.

What would this feature give you:

Being able to make a task and Click Up would add this to the WBS chart

Being able to draw a chart and Click Up would add this to task list

Presenting tasks to a team is very important, and a WBS Chart feature would fulfill that need.

I'm a long time mind map user, I tried/used almost all mind mapping tools from free programs like mindmup and freemind to comercial products like MindManager and iMindMap. Beside Gantt simplicity like on monday.com - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5G3ZwXz-LA, MindMap view is my biggest wish for ClickUp!!!

I'm loving Airtable but they have no offline mode and maybe some stuck for me. I do love Clickup (all-in-one) so the last thing I one want is Mind Mapping & Spread Sheet view as a real connection database the same with Airtable.

add features of mind maps and spread sheet view of tasks to do some calculation for tasks also.. Like to estimate time then and there.. Also we like to see progress bars in terms of units of work done and completion of estimated time...for every task and subtask to become the best in the world.

January 7, 2019

January 8, 2019

Anastasiya G

1) The one thing I'd need from a basic mindmapping tool is the ability to add cross-dependencies. Not all tasks can be organized under the same branch however often there are tasks that have a relationship with other tasks - usually blocked until finished. If there's at least that ability would be awesome. I'd love to be able to 'name' the cross dependency/relationship line, but not sure how that would translate when converting a mind map into a space/project. Perhaps in the description? Dunno.

2) Mind meister has the ability to already assign branches/tasks - it helps when brainstorming, a sort of 'they're on it' peace of mind.

3) Descriptions of points - open the point and edit the description. No commenting, just description.

The basics will be to translate the mindmaps (nodes at different levels) to tasks at different level (unlimited). At Clickup, we could go only as far as checklist/subtasks. Definitely need to sort this out first.

@CY CHAN: ah. interesting point although technically going from Team to checklists at 5 levels of order, you would have 11 mapable levels. If I'm doing that math right... or maybe 12, considering a task / sub-task can have multiple and discreet checklists

The bigger picture is about brainstorming ideas quickly and the latter is about visualizing "projects" with a mind map that is well designed and quite presentable.

My experience in psychology and computing has led me to discover these facts (hope this benefits you guys too in return):

1. We love those colors [the interface] in X-Mind e.t.c So be it.

2.But Brainstorming Ideas [Idea Factory] by typing them out (the way we do in X-mind) and auto-obtaining the map from a set of themes is faster and time saving, than to draw the mind-map from scratch, customizing it in detail!

@Dean Wood: I am with Dean. I do not think we need a big mind-mapping module to compete with theMindmaster/Xmind and likes. Just a simple module to organize your thoughts quickly in a mind map and then convert it to native Clickup format.

@Douglas Bento, I agree, yes two-way would be nice. I could, however, live with a clean one-way implementation for a while

2. choosing blocks + brain-storming + then you'd start thinking about beauty at first sight = time consuming, not the sole purpose of click-up I believe.

...and yea I've spent a lot of time with other software this way, especially in the millennial world, you're not just a project manager but a director of your entire life, with so many tasks to juggle around!

Again I vote for an integrated generic solution that makes use of relationship fields. I see two solutions, a simple one and a robust one.

Simple solution:

The custom field 'relationship' which is planned, will allow two way reference between any item and container and can have a name. Mindmapping is just a visual reporting method that displays the relationships. If there comes a page where items can be created dragged and dropped while these relationships are automatically created, a basic mindmapping solution is created.

A more robust solution:

Relationships as fieldable items. This is based on the generic 'item' .(previously named Task) and thus allows for more information to be stored in the relationship, because any custom field can be added to the relationship like image, and even tmany to many relationships.

It can also store information about whether it is a one way or two way relationship, to distinguish between for example 'A and B are friends' or 'A works for B'.

Third party mindmap tools:

I would love it they can be based on the existing item container and custom fields structure.

a) being able to structure your project as an initial mind map and then being able to convert it into a clickup structure

b) display an existing clickup structure as a mindmap view.

Whilst I think b) would be useful, a) would be the feature to give Clickup a huge advantage over similar products. The art to it would be to keep it really simple, just mindmap note-representations of a space, project, list, task, subtask. And a button to convert it into a clickup space setup.

I think that we need to be careful here. The images I saw in the comments represent 2 different things.

A flow chart would be showing the order and hierarchy of a series of actions. A little like an itinerary with all the stop and turn to arrive at the finished project. This one would also work very nicely with Gantt charts as it<s very similar concept showed differently..

Mindmap is an app design to put together ideas, together in order to use those ideas to form a project. Like a brainstorm with good and bad ideas to evaluate. It's used to group ideas by "subject" in order to have a better picture of what needs to be taken into account. It also can be use to figure out everything that need to be considered before starting a new project.

This one would be harder to switch between task and chart because the mindmap can have very deep branch that would not enter into task/subtack.

Since we have the Gantt chart coming soon, I think the mindmap would be more interesting if only one of them can be done...

What I have not found in any project planning tool so far is a lightweight integrated mindmapping tool. What I am envisioning is a simple integrated tool to draw a mind map with, which is aware of different node-types like projects, lists, tasks, subtasks. And when you are done with your structural planning of your project in a mindmap, you have a “convert” button which reformats it into the standard clickup project structure. All the prioritisation, assignments, due dates etc can then be done in the current app. I am just looking for a planning aide to structure my project visually during conception

Mind Mapping views of subtasks/tasks/lists/projects in association with the planned gantt chart views would be amazing! Mind maps provide intuitive visual insight into the conceptual structure of a project that one can't get from lists, and that capability in ClickUp would put it in a class of its own in my view. It'd be great to have the ability to create a mind map for each project.

I was just about to suggest the same idea. But the picture posted in you post does not sound like mind mapping it is more like a flowchart,, this one below does. Hope to see this feature soon, it will be a blast.

@Евгений Степанов: Hi Yevgeny , You shouldn't let this stop you. Ideas can be stated simply and pictures can be added to make your point. I will not judge your ideas on your English. I am sure that your point of view would be valuable.

I don't need a TON of bells and whistles in the mind map, but templates are a huge help so that I don't have to painstakingly re-set the appearance of every 'leg' I create. There will be hundreds! I'd love to change the set level appearance with a right click (or whatever works), in case one of my forking branches needs to look like a different level in the template (as an exception).

I'd love to be able to switch from List view to Mind Map view, so I can see the whole plan but then switch back to see what status each leg is on. It makes more sense to me to have more details in the list view, but less clutter in the mind map view.

Importing a staggered list (such as from WorkFlowy or Moo.do) straight into a mind map would be freaking awesome, but I don't mind having to import into list view before changing to mind map view.

I know apps are a real pain in the butt, but full View switch capability in android and apple would be a dream! (but not a dealbreaker). That said, if mind maps aren't viewable in the apps, I'll probably have to stick with a separate mind map that does have full mobile access. Unless I can view them on my web browser instead. Tomato, tomahto.